438 RESULTS. 



Most all seal killed by me have been cows with pups. * * * 

 Have not killed a bull seal for three years. I 

 John Eowineet, p. 264. have taken a few yearlings, mostly females. 



All the seals which I have seen killed were fe 

 Ola/ Kvam, p. 236. males, and the majority of these were pregnant 

 cows. 



Most all seals that I have taken were cows with 

 George Lacheek, p. 264. pup. A few male seal have been taken by me 

 from one to four years old. 



And that a good many have pups in them, and that when the boats 

 come aboard loaded with seal and they get through 

 James Laflin, p. 451. the skinning of them they would have a big pile 

 of pups on deck. 



I did not pay any particular attention to the sex of the seals we 



caught on the coast or in the sea any further than 



Andrew Laing, p. 335. we got a number of the yearlings and 2-year-olds 



on the coast, and that I have seen young live pups 



cut out of their dead mothers and they would walk around on deck 



and bleat for three or four days, and then die of starvation. 



We had a good catch, having taken 1,400 skins, more than 1,000 of 



which we secured on the coast. Of the latter, 



Jas. E. Lennan,p. 370. more than 75 per cent were female pelts, and of 



these about GO per cent were taken from pregnant 



cows. 



„ , T T . , ., , r „ I have very often cut a seal open and found a 

 Caleb Lmdahl, p. 456. v •* • •■. 1 



' L live young one mside. 



Of the class of seals taken I can say, from personal observation on 



board sealing vessels, as well as from knowledge 



Isaac Liebes, p. 453. gained in buying and handling the skins from 



seals killed in the Pacific, that in the spring 95 



per cent of them are cows heavy with pup; 4 per cent are pups less 



than 1 year old, born the previous summer, and 1 per cent males, most 



of the latter not exceeding two or three years old. 



Of all the seals captured by me, about one-half of them, I think, 



were cows with pups in them, and it is very sel- 



Jas. Lighthouse, p. 389. dom that I have ever caught a full-grown cow 



that was barren or did not have a pup in her; 



nor have I, in my long experience, caught a cow that was in milk, or 



that had recently given birth to her young. I seldom ever kill an old 



bull, for there are but very few of them that mingle with the herd 



along the coast. 



We sealed from there [Sannak] to the Akatan Pass and caught 75 

 seals, mostly females with pup. Some of the young 

 Caleb Lindahl, p. 456. they had inside were quite grown. 



